Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Lighting the Fire

 


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  1. There are 2 Buick nailheads in that start cart, it needed 700-725 ft-lbs of torque....

    https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Engines/starting-the-sr-71-blackbirds-j58-engines-ag330-start-cart

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  2. TEB injection spontaneously ignites on contact with air and burns hot enough to ignite the fuel. I think the SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets use the same ignition, you can see a greenish glow when their engines ignite on the pad.

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